Deaths in November 2005

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2005.

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*Micke Dubois, 46, (Known as "Svullo") Swedish actor and comedian, suicide
*Donald Breckenridge, 75, American hotel developer, lung cancer
*Ashraf Ghorbal, 80, Egyptian ambassador to the United States, member of the Egyptian negotiating team at the Camp David Accords.
*Lenford "Steve" Harvey, 30, AIDS campaigner, murdered. [1]
*Denis Lindsay, 66, South African cricketer, long illness
*Jean Parker, 90, American actress (Little Women)
*Jim Sasseville, 78, American cartoonist (It's Only a Game) [2]
*Herbert L. Strock, 87, B-movie director, heart failure

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*Robert E. "Bob" Brown, 78, American ethnomusicologist, complications of cancer.
*Shahadat Chowdhury, 62, Bangladeshi freedom fighter, journalist and editor.
*Józef Garliński, 92, Polish historian and writer.
*John R. Hicks, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
*Robert B. Luce, 83, former publisher of The New Republic. [3]
*Macon "Sonny" McCalman, 72, veteran American character actor, complications from a series of strokes. [4]
*Vic Power, 78, Gold Glove first baseman in Major League Baseball and one of the first Hispanic players in the majors, cancer.
*Stepan Senchuk, 50, Ukrainian politician, former governor of Lviv Oblast, homicide by gunshot.
*Wendie Jo Sperber, 47, actress, breast cancer. [5]
*David di Tommaso, 26, French soccer player, cardiac arrest.
*Deon van der Walt, 47, South African operatic tenor, homicide by gunshot.
*Frederic B. Vogel, ??, Broadway producer, lung cancer.
*Petr Jakeš, 65, Czech geologist, cancer.

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*Jack Concannon, 62, former NFL quarterback, heart attack.
*Marc Lawrence, 95, film actor This Gun for Hire; Diamonds Are Forever, heart failure.
*Tony Meehan, 62, former Shadows drummer, head injuries resulting from domestic accident.
*Eric Nance, 45, American convicted murderer, executed in Arkansas.
*Eleanor Stephens, 60, British television producer, cancer. [6]
*E. Cardon "Card" Walker, 89, corporate head of Walt Disney Productions from 1976-1983, congestive heart failure.

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*Jocelyn Brando, 86, American actress, and sister of actor Marlon Brando.
*Joe "Boogaloo" Jones, 79, American R&B singer, composer, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery. [7]
*Pat Putnam, 75, award-winning sports journalist best know for work with Sports Illustrated, complications from stomach surgery. [8]
*Franz Schönhuber, 82, German far-right politician (Die Republikaner party).

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*Stan Berenstain, 82, Berenstain Bears co-creator, complications due to cancer. [9]
*Colin Brinded, 59, snooker referee, cancer.
*Gopal Godse, 86, last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. [10]
*Charles "Clare" Laking, 106, one of the last surviving Canadian World War I veterans.
*Irving Ludwig, 95, long-time Walt Disney executive, founder of Buena Vista Distribution, natural causes. [11]
*Albert Steiner Jnr, American missionary in Central Thailand, heart attack

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*George Edgerton Barlow, AM, 80, Australian defence systems scientist. [12]
*George Best, 59, Belfast-born former Northern Ireland and Manchester United F.C. soccer player, multiple organ failure. [13]
*Richard Burns, 34, British World Rally Championship driver and 2001 champion, astrocytoma (a type of brain tumour). [14]
*Pierre Seel, 82, Gay survivor of Nazi concentration camp
*John Stayton Simonton Jr., 62, American electronic music synthesizer kit designer, founder of PAiA Electronics, Inc., cancer. [15]

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*Jamuna Baruah, 86, Indian actress. [16] [17]
*Pat Morita, 73, Academy Award-nominated (The Karate Kid) American actor, natural causes. [18]
*Barbara Szlachetka, 49, Polish marathoner, twice in Guinness Book of Records.
*John M. Vlissides, 44, one of the "Gang of Four", co-author of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, complications of a brain tumor
*Wilson "Lit" Waters, Jr., 74, member of the Grammy Award-winning gospel group, The Fairfield Four, complications from cancer. [19]

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*Ingvil Aarbakke, 35, Norwegian artist, cancer. [20]
*Isabel de Castro, 74, Portuguese actress.
*Constance Cummings, 95, American-born British actress.
*Dr. Thomas R. Dawber, 92, heart researcher who coined the phrase "risk factor", Alzheimer's disease. [21]
*Frank Gatski, 83, American Hall of Fame football player, heart disease.
*Nate Hawthorne, 55, American pro basketball player, heart attack. [22]
*Heinz Heinemann, 92, developed technique to convert methanol in to gasoline
*Paddy Kitchen, 71, British novelist and art critic. [23]
*Rosalind Stracey, 98, British sculptor. [24]
*Beverly Tyler, 78, American actress

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*Mike Austin, 95, Guernsey-born professional golfer and instructor, record-holder for longest drive in a professional tournament, natural causes. [25]
*Joe Pinckney, 75, American painter renowned for painting of Gullah culture, kidney failure. [26]

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*Alfred Anderson, 109, last living Scottish World War I veteran, oldest living man in Scotland and last survivor of the 1914 Christmas truce.
*Bruce Hobbs, 84, youngest jockey to win the Grand National (age 17 in 1938, riding Battleship). [27]
*Sonny Hutchins, 76, retired stock car and NASCAR driver.
*Luz Potter, 90, American actress, one of the last surviving munchkins
*Hugh Sidey, 78, American journalist, Time Magazine. [28].
*Umrao Singh, 85, last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross.

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*Canute Caliste, 91 Grenadan artist.
*Nora Denney, 77, American actress
*Jonathan James-Moore, 59, former BBC Radio head of light entertainment, cancer. [29]
*James King, 80, American operatic tenor. [30]
*Leopoldo Urrutia de Luis, 87, Spanish poet.
*Glenn Mitchell, 55, Public Radio broadcaster, radio talk show host.
*Lou Myers, 90, American cartoonist (The New Yorker). [31]
*Hans-Peter Reinecke, 64, German actor. [32]
*Chris Whitley, 45, American musician, lung cancer.

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*David Austin, 70, British cartoonist (The Guardian). [33]
*Erik Balling, 80, Danish TV and film director.
*Bruno Bonhuil, 45, French motorcycle racer, crash.
*John Timpson, 77, ex-presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, natural causes. [34]

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*Alfonso Arana, 78, Puerto Rican painter.
*GĂ©rard "Jabby" Crombac, 76, Swiss motor racing journalist, cancer.
*Harold J. Stone, 92, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter, Somebody Up There Likes Me).
*Elias Syriani, 67, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
*Sharon Beshenivsky, 39, British , Murdered in line of duty
*Lee Yoon-hyung, 26, heiress of Samsung

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*Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, 86, alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding
*Marek Perepeczko, 63, Polish actor.
*Sybil Shearer, 93, American modern dance choreographer. [35]
*Maurice Zimring, 95, American screenwriter, (Creature from the Black Lagoon).

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*Sandy Consuegra, 85, Cuban baseball pitcher.
*Ralph Edwards, 92, American television host and producer, heart failure.
*John Marlyn, 93, Canadian author.
*Henry Taube, 89, Canadian-born 1983 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
*Shannon Charles Thomas, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
*Donald Watson, 95, British founder of the Vegan Society, natural causes.
*Ian Xel Lungold, 56 American researcher, speaker and creator of the Mayan Calendar and Conversion Codex.

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*Barry K. Atkins, 94, U.S. Navy admiral, decorated World War II veteran. [36]
*Roy Brooks, 67, jazz drummer.
*Hanne Haller, 55, German singer, cancer.
*Agenore Incrocci aka Age, 91, Italian screenwriter. [37]
*John Martin, 82, American cellist, cancer. [38]
*Adrian Rogers, 74, American religious leader, complications of colon cancer.
*Robert Rowell, 50, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
*Agapito Sanchez, 35, Former junior featherwight boxing champion from Dominican Republic, gunshot wounds.
*Louis Sévèke, 41, Dutch left wing political activist, shot. [39]
*Robert Tisch, 79, co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants, brain cancer. [40]

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*John Campo Sr., 67, American champion horse trainer. [41]
*Miriam Hodgson, 66, British editor of children's books, ovarian cancer.
*R. Gaynor McCown, 45, American education activist, bile duct cancer. [42]
*Albert G. Montano, 87, Trinidadian politician. [43]
*Jenö Takács, 103, Hungarian classical composer and pianist

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*Vigoon "Phai" Boonthanom, 22, Thai pop singer, head injuries.
*William B. Bryant, 94, senior U.S. federal judge and the first black federal prosecutor in U.S. history. [44]
*Vine Deloria, Jr., 72, Native American author and activist, aortic aneurysm. [45]
*Harry Gold, 98, Irish jazz-musician
*Eddie Guerrero, 38, WWE professional wrestler, heart failure. [46]
*Miriam Roth, 95, Czech-born Israeli children's author.
*Ruth M. Siems, 74, home economist, an inventor of Stove Top stuffing. [47]
*Paul L. Ward, 94, American historian, past president of the American Historical Association and Sarah Lawrence College. [48]
*Henry Levun, 92, Chemical Engineer, Inventor, Activist, A man with a simple but brilliant wisdom;12
*Arthur K. Cebrowski, 63, retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and Pentagon official, cancer. [49]
*Madhu Dandavate, 81, Indian socialist leader. [50]
*James Fyfe, 63, American criminologist and instructor, cancer. [51]
*Roger D. Groot, 63, American law professor, also known for defending Lee Boyd Malvo. [52]
*Jerre D. Noe, 82, American professor and computer scientist, mesothelioma. [53]
*Rik Van Nutter, 75, American actor. [54]
*David Ruiz, 63, American convicted criminal, plaintiff in lawsuit that resulted in improved standards in Texas prisons. [55]

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*Moustapha Akkad, 75, film producer (Halloween films), injuries sustained in Jordanian bombings. [56]
*Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, 63, former aide to Saddam Hussein (death reported but unconfirmed by the US)
*Keith Andes, 85, American film actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), suicide by asphyxiation.
*Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, 66, British photographer, stroke. [57]
*Kingsbury Browne Jr., 82, American conservationist and lawyer, pneumonia. [58]
*E. Thomas Casey, 81, Architect and former dean of Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, stroke
*Mary Ducey Crabtree, 83, American actress and children's activist. [59]
*Peter Drucker, 95, management theorist, natural causes. [60]
*Pamela Duncan, 73, American B movie and TV actress
*Steven Van McHone, 35, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
*Luis "Lucho" Olivera, 63, Argentine cartoonist [61]
*Alex Porter, 63, British champion of political education
*Eduardo Rabossi, 75, Argentine philosopher and human rights activist

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*Fernando Bujones, 50, American classical ballet dancer, melanoma. [62]
*Steve Courson, 50, former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive guard, gardening accident. [63]
*Ernest Crichlow, 91, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance, heart failure. [64]
*Kristian Fredrikson, 65, New Zealand-born Australian ballet, opera and theatre designer, lung failure.
*Azahari Husin, 48, technical mastermind of the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, self-detonated bomb during a police raid. Indonesian police claim he was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives vest, and a comrade's bomb exploded shortly afterward.
*George van Kleef, 42, Dutch organized crime leader, assassinated. [65]
*Ray Lamar, 89, American doughnut magnate. [66]
*Ann Wyeth McCoy, 90, American painter and composer
*Gardner Read, 92, American composer.
*Bruce Sarver, 43, NHRA race car driver, suicide. [67]
*Alfred S. Schwartz, 92, clinical pediatrician, prostate cancer. [68]
*Ted Wragg, 67, British professor of education and commentator on education topics, heart attack. [69]

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*Avril Angers, 87, British comedienne and actress, pneumonia.
*Leonard N. Block, 93, American businessman and philanthropist, Alzheimer's disease. [70]
*K. R. Narayanan, 85, President of India (1997–2002), pneumonia and renal failure.
*Suzanne Rosza, 82, American violinist Amadeus Quartet member
*Charles Thacker, 37, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
*Charles R. Weiner, 83, U.S. federal judge who crafted the mass settlement of asbestos lawsuits, kidney failure. [71]
*Muriel Degauque,38, Belgian waitress who converted to Islam, and became the West's first woman suicide bomber.

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*Alekos Alexandrakis, 77, Greek actor, cancer.
*George Brumwell, 66, British trade unionist.
*Robert E. Bush, 79, youngest sailor awarded a Medal of Honor in World War II, kidney failure. [72]
*Andries van Dantzig, Dutch psychiatrist, brain haemorrhage. [73]
*Carola Höhn, 95, German stage and cinema actress.
*Beland Honderich, 86, former publisher of Toronto Star, stroke.
*Alan A. Reich, 75, American activist for the disabled, heart failure. [74]
*David Westheimer, 88, author, novelist (Von Ryan's Express).
*Adel al-Zubeidi, attorney in the continuing Trial of Saddam Hussein, bullet wounds sustained in Baghdad.

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*Rick Corrales, 48, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, stomach cancer. [75]
*Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, 61, Renault employee, murder.
*Bernard N. Thompson, 86, among the last surviving Buffalo Soldiers. [76]
*Harry Thompson, 45, British producer and writer of TV comedies, biographer and novelist, lung cancer. [77]
*Donald Watson, 87, British wildlife artist. [78]
*Steve Whatley, 46, British shopping television presenter, famous for many bloopers made live on air. [79]
*Carl S. Whillock, 79, former special assistant to President Clinton.

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*Lord Alexander of Weedon, 69, British barrister, banker, politician and President of the MCC, stroke.
*Giorgio Angelozzi, 80, Italian "adopted grandfather", later convicted of fraud, complications of diabetes. [80]
*Rod Donald, 48, co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, viral myocarditis. [81]
*Herbert T. Hayashi, 85, Hawaiian businessman. [82]
*Minako Honda, 38, Japanese pop singer, myelogenous leukemia.
*Dick Hutcherson, 73, former NASCAR driver, heart attack. [83]
*Steven Larner, 75, Academy Award nominated cinematographer
*Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela, 87, Mexican lawyer and professor, heart attack.
*Theodore Puck, 89, American researcher of genetics, complications from a broken hip.
*Patric Schmid, 61, American producer and historian of opera, heart attack. [84]
*Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, Polish-born Nazi criminal in a United Kingdom prison, natural causes.
*Sylvia H. Thompson, 52, American naturalist, accidental drowning. [85]

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*Hugh Alexander Dunn, AO, 82, prominent Australian diplomat and former ambassador to Taiwan and China. [86]
*John Fowles, 79, British author, after a long illness. [87]
*Leonora Hornblow, 85, American novelist and author of children's books.
*Sansoucy Kathenor, Canadian author.
*Derek Lamb, 69, animator, Oscar-winning producer. [88]
*Catherine M. Pessino, 80, American naturalist and educator. [89]
*John E. Rice, 53, American actor and spokesman, activist for little people, complications of a broken leg. [90]
*Pete Sarantos, 57, former University of Michigan football player, cancer. [91]
*Charles E. Thomas, 80, American minister and social activist. [92]
*Henry Tillsley, 72, soccer agent.
*Link Wray, 76, Rock and Roll guitarist best known for the 1958 instrumental "Rumble".

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*Nadia Anjuman, 25, Afghan poet. [93]
*Michael G. Coney, 73, Canadian science fiction author, mesothelioma.
*Michael Erceg, 48, New Zealand millionaire and owner of Independent Liquor. [94]
*Milton Holland, 88, jazz drummer, Alzheimer's disease.
*Earl Krugel, 62, American JDL activist and convicted criminal, prison assault. [95]
*Michael Mendelson, 63, American businessman, former president of Oppenheimer & Company, stomach cancer. [96]
*Sheree North, 72, American actress, complications following surgery. [97]
*Graham Payn, 87, South African actor, singer and partner of Sir Noel Coward.
*Brian Steckel, 36, American convicted murderer, executed in Delaware.
*Hastings Wise, 51, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.

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*Kent Andersson, 71, Swedish actor, playwright and theatre director.
*Aenne Burda, 96, German publisher.
*Talmadge Davis, 43, Cherokee artist, heart attack. [98]
*Bonne Bell Eckert, 82 American cosmetics magnate. [99]
*C. P. Ellis, 78, former KKK member turned civil rights activist. [100]
*Reginald Gammon, 84, American artist and civil rights activist. [101]
*Henry K. Giugni, 80, former sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate from 1987-1991, congestive heart failure. [102]
*Barbara Gill, 63, British Women's Institute activist.
*R.C. Gorman, 74, internationally exhibited Navajo artist, blood infection and pneumonia. [103]
*Daniel M. Gribbon, 88, American lawyer, complications of kidney disease. [104]
*Franck Kangundu and his wife Helene Paka, Congolese political journalists, assassinated on the eve of elections. [105]
*Serge Karlow, 84, former CIA officer wrongly suspected of treason, pneumonia. [106]
*Geoffrey Keen, 89, British actor of American films (Minister Frederick Gray in the James Bond films), natural causes.
*Otto Lacis, 71, Russian journalist.
*Paul Roazen, 69, professor and historian of psychoanalysis, complications of Crohn's disease. [107]
*Melvin White, 55, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.

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*Joseph Bonanno Jr., 60, American rancher, namesake son of famous mafia boss, heart attack. [108]
*Jean Carson, 80, American actress, Daphne ("fun girl") on The Andy Griffith Show. [109]
*Gordon A. Craig, 91, Scottish-born U.S historian.
*Kees Houtman, 45, Dutch real estate broker with organized crime ties, shot. [110]
*Frank Kyriopoulos, 61, retired US Air Force officer and Elvis impersonator, complications of heart surgery. [111]
*John Mieremet, 44, Dutch organized crime leader, shot. [112]
*J. Edward Murray, 90, American journalist, photographer, and war correspondent. [113]
*Waldemar Nielsen, 88, sociologist and scholar, expert on philanthropy. [114]
*Rick Rhodes, 54, American film composer and music supervisor, winner of six Emmy Awards, brain cancer. [115]
*Dennis B. Underwood, 60, hydro-engineer, former commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, sitting head of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, cancer. [116]

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*Mary Bennett, 92, British academic.
*Arthur Gibb, 97, former Republican Vermont State Representative, environmental law pioneer. [117]
*Skitch Henderson, 87, first bandleader for The Tonight Show. [118]
*Endre Marton, 95, Hungarian-born journalist. [119].
*Desmond Piers, 92, decorated former rear admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy.
*Michael Piller, 57, American television screenwriter and producer (including various Star Trek shows), cancer.
*Joseph C. Rodriguez, 76, U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Korean War, possible heart attack [120]
*Gladys Tantaquidgeon, 106, Mohegan tribal matriarch. [121].
*Michael Thwaites, 90, Australian poet, writer, naval officer, intelligence officer involved in the Petrov Affair.